What ObamaCare Means for Your Taxes?

If I read this right, being the IRS is involved, this money will go into the GENERAL FUND, not into a health, but it will be spent on every thing else just like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security is being spent on now, just like the case on where the Tobacco law suit said that the money had to go into covering people in all states to cover health problems, not go into the GENERAL FUND, but guess what, ask these states where this money is, and what it is being spent on.

Why is it that all these people who approve of Obamacare all have good jobs and good pay that can afford to buy good Health Insurance are for Obamacare, just like these Politicians say how good Obamacare is, if this is such a good Insurance, THEN WHY are the POLITICIANS who are pushing it not Having to pay for it themselves instead of Americans supporting their Health Insurance.

Obama makes a comment on some of his videos saying that people say that he wants to take control of every thing, well lets look at what he now controls:

Auto manufacturers

Unions

Banks

Health Care

Businesses through Taxes and Tighter Regulations

Oil, Gas, and Coal Control

And ALL Democrats and Czars

Education and

What foods we can eat

Nancy Pelosi on Health Care Mandate: ‘Goodbye to The Free Riders, LOOK who is talking about free loaders when Americans are paying for their health care, we can not afford to pay for our own but yet we have to pay for theirs.

I know all these people who can not see their nose in front of their face and see where this Country is headed, they will never admit there is any thing wrong in this Country this goes for Republicans, but Democrats are the biggest whiners, it seems that is where you will find most of the YUPPIES in this Country where they can get any thing they want.

Next step One World Government.

President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, which was deemed constitutional Thursday by the Supreme Court, includes some major tax changes that will take effect next year. Here’s a refresher course on how sweeping health-care reform will impact individual taxpayers like you.

Medicare Tax

Right now, the Medicare tax on salary and/or self-employment (SE) income is 2.9%. If you’re an employee, 1.45% is withheld from your paychecks, and the other 1.45% is paid by your employer. If you’re self-employed, you pay the whole 2.9% yourself.

Starting in 2013, an extra 0.9% Medicare tax will be charged on: (1) salary and/or SE income above $200,000 for an unmarried individual, (2) combined salary and/or SE income above $250,000 for a married joint-filing couple, and (3) salary and/or SE income above $125,000 for those who use married filing separate status. For self-employed individuals, the additional 0.9% Medicare tax hit will come in the form of a higher SE bill.

Medicare Tax on Investment Income

Right now, the maximum federal income tax rate on long-term capital gains and dividends is only 15%. Starting in 2013, the maximum rate on long-term gains is scheduled to go up to 20% and the maximum rate on dividends is scheduled to increase to 39.6% as the so-called Bush tax cuts expire.

But that’s not all. Also starting in 2013, all or part of the net investment income, including long-term capital gains and dividends, collected by higher-income folks can get socked with an additional 3.8% “Medicare contribution tax.” Therefore, the maximum federal rate on long-term gains for 2013 and beyond will actually be 23.8% (versus the current 15%) and the maximum rate on dividends will be a whopping 43.4% (versus the current 15%). Yikes!

The additional 3.8% Medicare tax will not apply unless your adjusted gross income (AGI) exceeds: (1) $200,000 if you’re unmarried, (2) $250,000 if you’re a married joint-filer, or (3) $125,000 if you use married filing separate status.

The additional 3.8% Medicare tax will apply to the lesser of your net investment income or the amount of AGI in excess of the applicable threshold. Net investment income includes interest, dividends, royalties, annuities, rents, income from passive business activities, income from trading in financial instruments or commodities, and gains from assets held for investment like stock and other securities. (Gains from assets held for business purposes are not subject to the extra tax.)

For example, a married joint-filing couple with AGI of $265,000 and $60,000 of net investment income would pay the 3.8% tax on $15,000 (the amount of excess AGI). If the same couple has AGI of $350,000, they would pay the 3.8% tax on $60,000 (the entire amount of their net investment income).

$2,500 Cap on Health-Care FSA Contributions

Right now, there’s no tax-law limit on contributions to your employer’s healthcare flexible spending account (FSA) plan (although many plan impose their own limits). Amounts you contribute to the FSA plan are subtracted from your taxable salary. Then you can use the funds to reimburse yourself tax-free to cover qualified medical expenses. Good deal! Starting in 2013, however, the maximum annual FSA contribution for each employee will be capped at only $2,500.

Right now, you can claim an itemized deduction for medical expenses paid for you, your spouse, and your dependents, to the extent the expenses exceed 7.5% of AGI. Starting in 2013, the hurdle is raised to 10% of AGI. However, if either you or your spouse is age 65 or older at yearend, the 10%-of-AGI threshold will not take effect until 2017.

That said, the fate of these four ObamaCare-related tax increases may hinge on what the Supreme Court decides next month. So maybe you have more reasons to be interested in that decision than you initially thought. Stay tuned. I’ll keep you posted.